Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This time, the Steve Miller Band was the host. The James Cotton Band is the guest I've chosen to include, helped by the fact that the two musical acts performed a song together.
At the time of this concert, Miller had just released his eighth studio album a few months earlier, "The Joker," in late 1973. He'd had a decent amount of commercial success so far, but his latest album contained the song "The Joker," which was his biggest success so far by a big amount. He'd never had a Top Forty hit before, but "The Joker" went all the way to Number One on the U.S. singles chart!
Curiously, Miller had been playing the song "Fly like an Eagle" frequently in concert since mid-1973, and he performed it here too, but the studio version of it wouldn't be released until 1976. Once he did release it as a single, it would go to Number Two.
Miller's career is a curious one, because he had many massive hits with the pop songs he wrote, yet he had more passion for the blues, which is a much less commercially successful genre in comparison. One could see that here by his choice of the James Cotton Band as a guest, and then performing the song "Big Boss Man" with him. I'm sure Cotton would have never appeared on the show otherwise (and in fact he never appeared on any other episodes). So good for Miller for giving Cotton this prominent TV appearance.
In case you're curious, the other guests on the show were Brownsville Station, Tim Buckley, and Genesis. I hope I'll find a way to post some of those in the future, especially in the Buckley and Genesis, even though they don't make a good musical fit on this album.
The first track has "[Edit]" in the title because I removed the theme song in the background, and replaced that with the sound of audience applause. And the third track has the same because I stitched two different talking sections together.
Unfortunately, even though Miller went on to much bigger commercial success later in the 1970s, he didn't appear on this show again.
This album is 34 minutes long.
01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
03 talk [Edit] (Steve Miller Band)
04 Rocket 88 (James Cotton Band)
05 Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma (Steve Miller Band)
06 talk (Steve Miller Band)
07 Big Boss Man (Steve Miller Band & James Cotton Band)
08 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
09 talk (Steve Miller & Wolfman Jack)
10 Sugar Babe (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
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The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert.
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